An analyst wrote that with selonsertib's failures in fourth- and now third-stage fibrosis, the drug will have no place in NASH treatment. Gilead has entered partnerships focused on other compounds for the fatty liver disease.
The French company, developing a drug to treat nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, announced the pricing of its shares at $20.32 apiece.
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The company, one of several developing drugs for the growing fatty liver disease, said in an SEC filing that it would sell its shares at $26.33 apiece.
Shares of the New York-based company jumped nearly 20 percent Tuesday on news that the REGENERATE study of obeticholic acid showed strong improvement in NASH-related liver fibrosis.
The company joins a growing wave of firms developing drugs for the disease, which has no approved treatments. It expects to enter two drugs into the clinic next year.
The companies will run clinical trials combining Novartis' tropifexor with any one of several Pfizer drugs under development for the disease, which lacks approved treatments.
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The new company is headquartered in San Francisco, with R&D in Israel and has launched a Phase I study of BIO89-100, formerly TEV-47948.
The company secured $60 million in a Series A round from Third Rock and Takeda, plus a partnership with Takeda.
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Cookies and milk or cookies and colostrum? Immuron is targeting inflammatory bacteria in the gut with an engineered colostrum formulation, designed to prevent the liver damage that leads to NASH.
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